I have this feature on my 5-year-old Cowon iAudio … it’s mostly useless (the feature, not the player). It was handy a couple times when I had a friend’s CD I wanted to rip without borrowing it or going home to do it, or at my parent’s place when it would have actually taken longer to rip on their ancient computer. Other than those 2 or 3 times in 5 years though, nah. I definitely wouldn’t have paid extra for it.

I have a Sony digital recorder (like the old microcassette recorders) that has this as an advertised feature, but you know what? They slap some DRM on the file and it also requires you use the Sony software to get the file off the device.